Improved case for packing bottles



UNITED` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSANNA CARPENTER, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,377, dated August 4, 1863.

To aZZ whom it may concer-71,:

Be it known that I, BosANNA CARPENTER, a resident of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Case for the Package and Transportation of Glass Bottles or Vessels; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis atop view of one of my improved cases with its bottles arranged and packed in it, the cover of the case being supposed to be removed in order to exhibit the said bottles and their divisional boards. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of it with the cover in place. Fig. 3 is a top view of the bottom of the case, the same showing the arrangement of mortises for the reception of the divisional boards.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination and arrangement of mortises and divisional boards with a packing-case, the purpose of the mortises being to receive the -ends of the divisional boards, and the purpose of the divisional boards beingto separate the bottles from one another and to save thenecessity of packing them in sawdust or other loose matter or matters.

In the drawings, A denotes an ordinary packing box or case, of which a is the top or cover, and b the bottom.

B B B, &c., denote a series of bottles placed withinthe boX, and being of a height to correspond with the depth of the interior of' the box. Between each two next adjacent bottles there is a mortise, c, made in the bottom and below its upper surface,.the said mortise being for the reception of the foot of one of a series of the divisional boards d dd, 8mo., there being one of such boards interposed between each two adjacent bottles, in manner as shown in the drawings. Each divisional board i s to be of a length equal to the depth of the mortise and that of the interior of the box, in order that when all the bottles and their divisional boards are in place in the box and the cover is fixed in place it will rest,on the upper ends of the divisional boards, and thus operate to preserve them in their respective positions.

I do not claim the mere employment of a board or partition in a packing-case, and for the purpose of separating two things therein from one another and keeping them in place; but

I claim as myinvention- An improved packing-case having mortises and divisional boards combined and arranged in it, substantially in manner and for the purpose or purposes hereinbefore specified.

ROSANNA CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA SEAvER, J oHN WELLS PARKER. 

